Guy Mannering or, The Astrologer — Complete
Guy Mannering or, The Astrologer — Complete

Guy Mannering or, The Astrologer — Complete

Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer — Complete The second essay in fiction of an author who has...
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Guy Mannering or, The Astrologer — Complete

Guy Mannering or, The Astrologer — Complete

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Guy Mannering or, The Astrologer — Complete

Guy Mannering or, The Astrologer — Complete

$106.83 $53.39
Author: Scott, Walter,1771-1832
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer — Complete

The second essay in fiction of an author who has triumphed in his first romance is a doubtful and perilous adventure. The writer is apt to become self-conscious, to remember the advice of his critics,--a fatal error,--and to tremble before the shadow of his own success. He knows that he will have many enemies, that hundreds of people will be ready to find fault and to vow that he is written out. Scott was not unacquainted with these apprehensions. After publishing Marmion he wrote thus to Lady Abercorn:-- These fears of the brave, then, were not unfamiliar to Scott; but he audaciously disregarded all of them in the composition of Guy Mannering. He had just spun his web, like the spider of his simile, he had just taken off his intellectual fields the scourging crop of The Lord of the Isles, he had just received the discouraging news of its comparative failure, when he buckled to, achieved Guy Mannering in six weeks, and published it. Moliere tells us that he wrote Les Facheux in a fortnight; and a French critic adds that it reads indeed as if it had been written in, a fortnight. Perhaps a self-confident censor might venture a similar opinion about Guy Mannering. It assuredly shows traces of haste; the plot wanders at its own will; and we may believe that the Author often--did not see his own way out of the wood. But there is little harm in that. If I do not know what is coming next, a modern novelist has remarked, how can the public know? Curiosity, at least, is likely to be excited by this happy-go-lucky manner of Scotts. The worst of it is; as he wrote to Lady Abercorn about his poems (June 9,1808), that I am not very good or patient in slow and careful composition; and sometimes I remind myself of the drunken man, who could run long after he could not walk. Scott could certainly run very well, though averse to a plodding motion. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 5999
Author: Scott, Walter
Release Date: Aug 19, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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